Steve McQueen

The Life and Legend of a Hollywood Icon

Marshall Terrill, Peter O Whitmer

• Publisher: Triumph Books Entertainment
• eBook ISBN:
  9781617494734
• Year: 2010

Steve McQueen takes us on a journey as his harrowing and painful childhood is laid bare, through his glittering career, and right up to his heroic battle with cancer and dramatic death in Mexico. It chronicles the good with the ugly, revealing the great power McQueen wielded. It features numerous behind-the-scenes stories from some of his (and cinema's) greatest films, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, and Papillon. The book's triumph is the way in which the author explores McQueen in full through his larger-than-life exploits but as important, the lesser known, humanitarian side of the Hollywood legend. It also captures the fundamental essence of what made McQueen cinema's "King of Cool."

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Dedication/Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Author's Note
• Chapter 1: A Most Inconvenient Birth
• Chapter 2: A Midwestern Boy On His Own
• Chapter 3: Broken Dreams, Empty Promises
• Chapter 4: Nothing Without Labor
• Chapter 5: Leatherneck
• Chapter 6: The Actor's Life
• Chapter 7: The Young Lions
• Chapter 8: The Great White Way And The Silver Screen
• Chapter 9: Mr. Adams
• Chapter 10: Low Budget
• Chapter 11: Go West, Young Man
• Chapter 12: In The Name Of The Father
• Chapter 13: Rat Pack Confidential
• Chapter 14: Silence is Golden
• Chapter 15: Freedom
• Chapter 16: God Save McQueen
• Chapter 17: He's Alive!
• Chapter 18: The Juice
• Chapter 19: The Three Faces Of Steve
• Chapter 20: The Big Leagues
• Chapter 21: Top Gear
• Chapter 22: Supernova
• Chapter 23: Today Hollywood, Tomorrow...The World!
• Chapter 24: Strange Days
• Chapter 25: Let It Ride
• Chapter 26: Snake Eyes
• Chapter 27: Back In The Saddle
• Chapter 28: New Vibration
• Chapter 29: Punch It, Baby!
• Chapter 30: Rumble In The Jungle
• Chapter 31: Man On Fire
• Chapter 32: Adrift
• Chapter 33: Divided Soul
• Chapter 34: Last Chance
• Chapter 35: On A Wing And A Prayer
• Chapter 36: Industrial Disease
• Chapter 37: The Last Mile
• Chapter 38: 99 Days To God
• Chapter 39: Bad Medicine
• Chapter 40: 15 Minutes To 12
• Chapter 41: Ashes to Ashes
• Chapter 42: Legacy
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology Of Major Stage, Television, And Film Roles
• Unseen McQueen
• Chapter Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Photo Inserts